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Alfred Edouard D'Hont (1840-1900), aka Donato, is a Belgian public magnetizer known for the spectacular demonstrations he made across Europe in the 1870s and 1880s. He was born in Chênée (province of Liège) in 1840 and died in 1900 in Paris at the house of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, at the age of sixty. D'Hont performed his first magnetism sessions in Liège in 1874. In 1880 he toured Switzerland: Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Friborg, Montreux, Berne, La Chaux de Fonds, Basel and Sion. During this tour, he meets the Lausanne ophthalmologist Marc Dufour and other doctors. Jean-Martin Charcot, head of the Neurology Department at Salpêtrière, and Charles Richet discover hypnotism during the cabaret shows where it occurs. He prefaced the book of Edouard Cavailhon, Magnetic Fascination (1882). Director of the magazine Magnetism. A general review of physiopsychological sciences, published in 1886, he was at the origin of donatism, a theory which emphasizes the role of imitation in hypnosis.
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